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Friday, May 18, 2012

LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA

Gypsy orchestra treats plane full of stranded passengers to an impromptu
hoedown in economy class (...and the video goes viral)PHOTO Trombone: Passengers were enthusiastic and perplexed by the Lemon Bucket
Orkestra's impromptu concert on their delayed flight

FROM THE DAILY MAIL ONLINE

Passengers on a delayed Air Canada flight from
Toronto to Frankfurt were treated to an impromptu performance on Wednesday when
gypsy band the Lemon Bucket Orkestra pulled out their array of instruments to
entertain the anxious crowd.

But it's not just those on board who embraced
the jovial music. The Canadian fourteen-piece's economy class
hoedown has gone viral on YouTube, amassing more than 100,000 views in the past
24 hours.

'Our plane got delayed 20 minutes so we got
out the instruments,' the band wrote on its YouTube page.

The band played four songs on the tarmac at
Pearson Airport in Toronto for stranded passengers on flight AC 876.

Its energetic music was met with enthusiasm from
the crowd, with most people clapping and some even dancing in the aisles.

Others were clearly confused that what seemed
like a bunch of college students was in fact a fully fledged
orchestra.Green-mohawked violinist, Mark Marczyk, said
the impromptu concert was designed to 'lighten the mood' of passengers who were
growing more anxious that their plane had not taken off.'The in-flight performance was not a planned
stunt. We were getting a little anxious about waiting on the tarmac, and so were
the other passengers. Call it ‘lightening the mood.’ It’s the kind of thing we
do all the time.'

Billed as 'Toronto's only
Balkan-Klezmer-Gypsy_Party_pun Super-Band', the Lemon Bucket Orkestra was en
route to Bucharest to share the stage with the world’s foremost Romani band,
Taraf de Haidouks.'As a Canadian band, it’s a real honour to be
invited to perform in one of the places where our music comes from,' Mr Marczyk
said.The sold-out show was the first of a
thirteen-date promotional tour across Romania organized by the International
Romani Art Festival.

The band regularly busks on the streets of
Toronto. It has used the opportune delay and surprise performance to rally more
fans, releasing a list of tour dates in a press release about the video's
success on YouTube.

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LOLO DIKLO : RrOMANI AGAINST RACISM

Lolo Diklo : Rromani Against Racism is an organization dedicated to providing information about the true situation of the Romani (Gypsies) in the world today. We are committed to confronting racism and oppression wherever it is found.

BACKGROUND

The Romani are a people who are not very well known. We are an ethnic group of people originally from India. We left India and arrived in Europe sometime in the 1300's. There are many theories as to why we left India. This is the work of academics, and we have some. Most Romani are more concerned about daily survival to worry about documentation of our past. We know who we are.

What is known about the Romani is, for the most part, stereotypically based. We are portrayed as romantic, carefree wonderers or child stealers, pick pockets and beggers.

Today the Romani of Europe face the same discrimination they have faced for centuries.